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This Colorado songbird just relocated to Austin, where she is already melting hearts and turning heads -- especially at Giddy Ups where she is building a solid reputation for style and grace.

6:00 pm 6:25 pm Jennifer Ellen Cook

www.jenniferellencook.com

Combines a love of modern rock, grooves, Sixties soul, old jazz and good songs; her amazing voice has been compared to "an angel in heat."

6:30 pm 6:55 pm Kyle Evans of Echo Bloom (Brooklyn)www.echobloom.com

The music "sounds like Edward Hopper set to music: dark, sparse and compelling. My heroes are people who make it up on their own - that kind of reductive clarity. Like John Cage and Edward Tufte - Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen - Jeff Mangum and Marshall McLuhan.

7:00 pm 7:25 pm Giulia Millanta (Florence, Italy)

Born Italian, Giulia has a gypsy soul together with curiosity and a willingness to experiment that brought her to Austin, Texas, where she has found "Dust and Desire," her latest album.

7:30 pm 7:55 pm TBA

8:00 pm 8:25 pm Kyle Morgan of Rotten Belly Blues (Philadelphia)

Shot from the backwood blues of the Mississippi Delta, into the rollicking rhythms of the southern honky-tonks, through the heart of Appalachian balladry and landing in the dying flames of modern rock'n'roll, Morgan's music is a mosaic of American song tradition.

8:30 pm 8:55 pm Blue Bear (Austin)

9:00 pm - 9:25 pm Grandkids (Champaign-Urbana)

"People say that the songs make them happy, that the lyrics are really relatable, like, 'oh, I've been there before.'" Vivian McConnell, from an interview, "Campus Celebrity"9:30 pm 9:55 pm Acoustic Minds (Portland, OR) Identical twins Jenni and Amanda Price specialize in their own blend of soul and New Millennium dance pop.

10:00 pm 10:25 pm Alex Campbell Band (Boston)

Instrumental rock/jazz fusion from Berklee students Campbell (who is from Austin) on guitar, James Applegate on drums, Tom Palmer on bass, and Kelly Ebler on keyboards.

10:30 pm - 10:55 pm Davey Jones of Lost Boy (Brooklyn)

11:00 pm 11:25 pm Hooka Hey (Paris, France)

Like Queens of the Stone Age, this quartet will rock you. Hard!

11:30 pm - 11:55 pm Buenos Diaz (Austin)

12:00 am 12:30 am Choctaw Wildfire (Austin)

Sometimes sounding like a man possessed, Charlie Pierce's piano playing is driven and intense. His music can leave you feeling like an outsider who has just witnessed something very real, painfully beautiful, and ultimately redeeming.

12:30 am - close Tucson (New Orleans)

This jazz-funk-hiphop fusion trio are all students at the famed music program at Loyola of New Orleans.